Unfortunately our Veritas Clusters are rather new, and when setting them up we didn't have a clear plan as to how things where to be laid out. This means that we have far to many Resource Groups making the linking of the resources difficult. Some details...

So we've built a Symantec Cluster Server (VCS), but we are not happy with the resource names. Maybe its not really clear what they are for, but with a simple edits of a file we can change all that. The /etc/VRTSvcs/conf/config/main.cf contains all...

Continuing with my cluster builds, but before the true cluster configuration is done, I need to setup and service address. This is the address that the application requires to move between the nodes, this could be so that you login via one know address, or to...

Today after I getting all the filesystem mount points configured and set up in a cluster I was was asked change them. Annoying but not something I was initially sure how to do. Little bit of searching and clarification of the VCS commands this is what I was...

So time ago, I wrote a document on how to install VCS on IBM Power. At the time I was with the IBM Redbooks team writing a number of publications and found some of the information that I needed a bit short. Since then I've not had a lot of opportunities to...

IBM is pleased to announce the launch of our 2015 Global SmartCamps in collaboration with angel investor, and serial entrepreneur, Jason Calacanis (@jason) and LAUNCH Media in sixteen cities worldwide, and counting. We are especially excited to be...

Data Migration is always a hot topic in any Storage tech refresh requirements. One of the common mechanism of Storage data migration followed is Replication based data storage migrations which makes the huge data movement easier at storage level. Data...

A critical backbone of any DevOps environment is the version control system (VCS). Fundamentally, version control systems are change management enablers; they track changes by each contributor across a body of information (typically text-based) that together...